A new light novel label from Enterbrain called B's-LOG Bunko will start next month (14/10/2006). This label will be aimed at female audience, and there will be BL light novels published under this label.

According to this post, uncollected chapters of CLAMP's X that did not make it into Tankobon format will appear in the upcoming CLAMP Newtype (PLATINUM) special issue of Newtype.

Source: AoD

From The AnimeOnDVD.com Staff And Industry Journal comes an interview with Kara A. Stambach, who is currently working on Tokyopop's new light novel Seikai: Crest of the Stars.

Broccoli Book has posted some hints on a few new licenses on its blog, below are the "code names" of the new titles:

- Madadane
- Angel Food Cake Mix in a Box
- Calendar Girls
- Trekkie Paradise

Source: MangaBlog

Shogakukan is set to release a retrospective of classic manga titles from 1945 to 2005, on October 30th. Titled The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Manga (English title: literal Japanese title is Modern Manga Museum), it introduces roughly 700 titles from 4 eras (1945-58, 59-69, 70-80, 81-2000 and 2001-2005) along with brief excerpts from the manga and publication data. It also includes a mangaka index, manga chronology and complete list of publishers' award winners.

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From MangaCast comes the Diamond Previews for October 2006, which provides information on new U.S. releases for Dec 06-Jan 07.

Tatsuya Fujiwara (24), who plays the role of Light Yagami in the upcoming movie "Death Note - The Last Name," appeared at a DN press event held on 9/20. Despite the recent series of unfortunate events surrounding Death Note, the release date of the upcoming movie will not be affected -- not only will the movie premier in Japan on November 3rd, but it will also be released in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the same day.

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On September 16, the Hong Kong government held a license plate auction, where a "GUNDAM" plate was sold for 110,000 Hong Kong Dollars (approximately 14,000 USD).

Other plates sold during the auction included "1 LOVE U", "HANDSOME", "BEATLES", "BABYFACE", etc. The highest bid was "1 LOVE U" at 1.4 million HKD. In the end the auction generated over 11.25 million HKD.

Broccoli Books has an announced a "never-before published collection of illustrations from Aquarian Age - Juvenile Orion." The artbook, Aquarian Age - Juvenile Orion: Realm of Light Illustration Book, will be released on October 25th.

Broccoli also announced that the release date of KAMUI volume 5 has been pushed back 2 weeks to October 25th.

Source: AoD

ANN reports that Dark Horse is the publisher that licensed MPD-Psycho. The official announcement will be made at this weekend's Anime Weekend Atlanta.